Cocktails
The spirit of Lent
If you must forego wine, try cocktails instead
Hail Mary
A Bloody Mary is perfect at almost any time of day and in every kind of weather
Colour conundrum
A lasting love-affair with Chartreuse
Cool enough for Cary
Christopher Pincher offers some simple rules to stick to for cocktail-drinking
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
Christmas? My arse!
Seething about Santa, sofagate and the Common effing Entrance
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
